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first, stalks were growing fully two inches high. Occasionally a 
laiva was seen m the space between the rows, but nearly‘all 
were concentrated in the hills of corn. Considering the ordinary 
habit of the species, it is quite likely that the beetles were 
attracted to this field by rotten turnips remaining in the 
ground. 
June 16 1885, larvae were very abundant at Mt. Pulaski in 
Centra! Illinois, in the kernels of ears left in the field which had 
been turned under by the plow and had commenced to grow. 
May lb. 1887, a number were taken in a similar situation from 
a mass of sprouting corn at Urbana, Ill. 
As an adult, this species was reported bv Walsh in 1867 * * * § on 
the testimony of an anonymous correspondent, to have done an 
•extensive injury some years before to sweet corn in Minnesota 
by burrowing m the ear; and Ur. John Hamilton, of Toronto 
Canada, saysr that it is often found in the green ears of maize’ 
but oidy m such as have been injured by birds or other animals! 
uCm 1' 1893 7, It; was brought to my office by an assist- 
ant, Mr. Marten, with several injured kernels of corn, from the 
exposed tip of the ear, which the beetle had burrowed into or 
eaten away irregularly. In one other case reported under this 
same date it was found burrowing into doughy grains beneath 
the husk, more than an inch from the nearest exposed kernels 
the natural inference being that the grains had not been previ¬ 
ously injured. I his very common species must consequently be 
classed as one of the minor insect enemies of corn, which it in¬ 
jures both as larva and adult—much more seriously, however 
m the former stage. 
i In T‘^ va luable plants and fruits were first reported 
by VValsh m 1867,i to whom a correspondent sent the beetle 
with the statement that it had eaten into apples and pears 
apparently burrowing in holes made by some other insect or a 
lurd, as many as ten or twelve occurring in a single hole 
A similar report as to the pear was made in 1870 by a corre¬ 
spondent of Dr. Riley, who found the beetle entering the fruit bv 
way of the calyx. § J 
By Dr. Cyrus Thomas, State Entomologist of Illinois, it is 
said|| again on the authority of a correspondent—to have in¬ 
jured apples m 1876—principally the early varieties, puncture 
the skin, and eating its way to the center, dozens of them beinS 
sometimes found in a single apple. By one of my most valued 
correspondents, Mr. Benjamin Buckman, of Farmingdale, Ill., 
lis eetle was reported to me July IT, 188J, as a 11 never- 
ending nuisance from eating into ripe apples, pears, raspberries, 
blackberries, etc.,” on his place. 
* Prac. Ent. Vol. IE., p. 56. 
+ Can. Ent. Vol. XVII. (1885). p. 46. 
t Prac. Ent. Vol. II.. p. 56. 
§ Amer. Ent. Vol. II., 1870, p. 308. 
II Sixth Ptep. State Ent. III., 1875-76, p. 91. 
